Three so-far-unnamed Brazilian dairy companies have received the proper paperwork to start deliveries to Russia, a representative of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture said. The new imports will help fill a gaping hole left by EU suppliers. One of the companies has already started deliveries, Marcelo Junqueira, secretary for international affairs of the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry Marcelo said, ITAR-TASS reported.
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Almost in the same All-American league as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer will now be in the hands of a Russian brewer. Oasis Beverages, which did not even classify beer as an alcoholic beverage until 2011, announced on Thursday that it would acquire the 170-year old American brewer Pabst Brewing Company with American private-equity firm TSG Consumer Partners owning a minority share.
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The supermarket chain said it was now working to establish the impact of the issue on its full-year results. It had expected £1.1bn profit for the half year. It has appointed Deloitte to independently investigate the issue.
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The American firm makes oilfield equipment and, under the deal, it will become "the platform for oil and gas equipment solutions within Siemens". The German firm said its $83-a-share bid had been unanimously supported by Dresser-Rand's board of directors.
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Concerned by the low level, less than 20 percent of fraud reporting by deposit money banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has moved with more punitive measures to ensure full compliance. The CBN said it would today or on Monday issue another circular to all banks to speed up to capture all their customers in the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise which is one of the measures put in place to combat fraud in the industry.
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After months of preparation to launch his bid for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, has finally dropped his ambition and joined other governors of the party to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole presidential candidate of the PDP to contest the 2015 election. Lamido, who was singled out yesterday at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party and gave Jonathan the thumbs up sign, did not dissent in the adoption of Jonathan as the candidate of the party.
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Until recently, Plateau North senatorial zone, though with a few ethnic tribes of Berom, Afizere, Anaguta, Irigwe, Penganna and Rukuba in it, was one formidable entity. Their few differences were not enough to stop them from forging one political front. It is even believed that this political unity amongst the tribes contributed a great deal to the emergence of the incumbent Governor of the state, Jonah David Jang. The zone knew it was its turn to produce the governor in 2007, seeing that the southern and central zones had been represented at different times, and so were not going to leave any stone unturned to achieve this. The tribes buried their differences and gave the needed support for the emergence of Jang.
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In what appeared to be a change of mind, the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commisssion (INEC), Prof. Atahiru Jega, yesterday dismissed insinuations that elections might not hold in tthe roubled North-eastern part of the country, arguing that if elections could hold in more volatile countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the case of Nigeria and the North-east in particular could not be different. Jega had told a National Assembly committee last year that possibility of conducting elections in states under emergency rule was zero, arguing that it would be outrightly difficult if not impossible to conduct elections in states prone to insecurity.
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Ahead of the 2015 general elections elders and traditional title holders in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State yesterday asked Governor Sullivan Chime to contest the Enugu West Senatorial seat presently occupied by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. Speaking during a solidarity visit to the governor at the Government House, Enugu, the elders who operate under the umbrella of “Ndi Nze N’ Ozo Awgu Egbeleli" said their decision to support the governor to go to the senate at the expiration of his term was influenced by the achievements he had recorded as governor.
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The Acting Director-General, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Mr. Benedict Adeyileka, yesterday said more than 60 per cent of the aircraft operated by Nigerian airlines were on lease. Adeyileka spoke in Lagos through NCAA’s General Manager, Airworthiness and Standard, Mr. Kayode Ajiboye, at a seminar organised by Aeroconsult with the theme “Sustaining Safety in the Nigerian Aviation Sector.’’ He said most airlines preferred aircraft lease financing to reduce their operational cost.
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